The Sun. — London, England, 1809-05-09 00:00:00

LONDON, ititsnAy, KAY 9, 1809. stwry to say that aceotinti have beett're ceivc:d from Dovey morning, which state that there were . yOtetday fit ing 0 . 14 illitmitlat ions on the 4- • French , from which it is infered that PA . I4 - Tlil - 'hit; obiailled „Nailer .sucCess. ovor the Au- st flans. : The latest accounts from Lisbon came by the Goodliope,which art ivrd yesterchy. cycneralrßil'RES votto on the 9th .had marched Northward 'with a Corps of llritish and Portuguese. No .intelligence respe6.ling the movements of 'Sovi.T had. reaelted the south of opOrto, , Iladajos had received a supply of 3000 then, which. had been sent by CUgSTA. I. l lle, Enemy bad twice snmertoned the place to surrender, but it had treated tht: proposition with contempt, tho' a large body of 'French three leagues of the town. i Sir .JOHN CRADDOek: ' was' at Lisbon on 14 4 On the iiith the Goodliope passed, off. Cape Finisterre, the „Fleet •of ! Transports with. the Cav,lry that folloWed Si.r Aittntin WE;.I.PSLRY, sailing under a fine breeze. It is probable that' on the Ith they aiya their gadant (,:oirimender had safely ail-I\l%l ; isnd 11.14 ,%,1 6 .iwy,t,atioi) of lliOthitish forces Portug icluier the amouut Uf our Cavalry :It {vast frill() great. nbje4t of tfle neport:of,CnampAGNY, , 11;h o the $11: jeCt of ,the dispute ,with ;lust' ia, is tti pr('ive that his the. Emperor of A U . Oll lA, and not, Bu 01.4 A 1".% ay.:, that has provoked the :war, and 'that' the latter , x. 4414 anxious for'llio.Preservation of Peace.-. , The ttuth or falsehood of this aSserlion 'depends' en; tirely upon the meaning iii nexe& to the v.vorcll. ) e4ce; ! in the stitiSe that BtrONAPAUTE used the word Peace,. there can he no donhl that he 'was anxious:for : the pre4..rvation of it, 'beta se by Peace he means Sub vii4s,:tort., If Austria would consent to view, without' recnOnitrance„ avowed : plans for extending• his . poiver over ettery pail of turoPe ;—if she could he hold %Kith etico; 4he outrag6s 'colittriftted, 10440 the i'overeign 'and' the People .of Spain in comphance , .wit v h the .mandate of litTortAPwre, alte would not only breAk off all correspondence, 'but even declare .war it a Power:with which she: hadhing lacen in friendship, and against which she. hadno arise of cornptaidk;--if 'she could he satisfied With the shadow , of independence; without possessing the,"reality ;---.if, under the name of an ally to Fr3llCe, IltAtria Vsrotatd consent to perform the duties.oftkvas sel; she tifri;ht hive continued M the enjoyMent of peace : tivoNApAnTa would not; at leaste,•until he bad atfiirs Spain, have disturbed her reporitt., iizrtt if we .inc, to believe Mons. CnAm- PAGNv, A ~I, , tria hasmot 'armed for her own protec ,tion„blit frornrr,otiVes of ambition and views of conquest, and tihtt 'those views of COnritlpSt In. dt rcEled Li Erance and Russia; 'and the people of Enrope ca!tid upon to believe that Amnia, tate: iiiivinv; suffered such dreadful disasters in her last France, after seeing a French army in slon of, her caPital, though at that time she , ; issl)tod hy tt Ilitisian r‘irtity, connotandeti by the Emperor of Ruiiiia in person; the p c Opk.• o f Europe, we say, arecalled upon to believe that .M4tria.ho now, with diminished resources, ..vith x hanste4: revenuetc. and' %Vithoot an ally, wan • in for Mere pnrpcises of Conquest, proroite4, War aea;nst hoth,Prance and Russia l It would I;e.an insult to the understanding of our Iteaders, if' is t wure to d,weit,aily,lOttit.ir upon this pat t of the ; but there ,are , othor parts' 'of . this Report which deserve. or:tice..2,- It is curious to observe the., ittonsimeneies and contradiaions which iluotos.' m'. RTE and '.`..l.nkters.i)erpetually fall into when they speak of Spain : at one tithe, tae !itsurrection and insurgents in Spain are spoken of with the LII7 MOO contempt at another, Atte Truth breaks our, and these contemptible Insuigcntf ale represented as formidable oppenews. In one part of the Reperf, M CIIAMP'AGNY speaks with a kind of indifference of • some of the Spanish Provinces being. instigated into rebellion, by,the artifices of the English, and the fanaticism of the Monks i'and immediately after wards he says, BUONAPARTS sent ' 20,006 men from -Germany into Spain, in addition to an Army of - between 70 . And 80,000 men that were in Spain before the insur7-e6tion broke out. ' It must cer.: tainly have been a most formidable It surreaion that required 280,000 men to quell it. The War with Austria, we are told in this Report, prevented several Maritime Expeditions that were preparing at Flushing, Boulogne, Brest, Toulon, &c. With all possible submission to Mkt' ANIfAGN e, we apprehend that he labours under a mistake upon this subjed at least it appears .to us, - quite as probable that the Maritime Expeditions which Buo , NAPARfg had planned, were frustrated by the de strtiBiou of the 'Plena *Naval Force in Basque: Roads,'as by the Armaments of Anslria. There is one assertion in this Report, which we should have thought Unworthy : of notice, if 'we had not seen it adverted to and adopted in an Opposition Paper:cif this morning. The Report says, that "' his Majesty's Declaration of the 16th Dec. last discovered to BUONAPARTE the designs of Austria and the . Mori* Taper to which we allude, adcipting this assertion, declaies,,..that " it is not without afeeling. " of mortification that we find Mr. CANNING'S De " duration', issued in : the name of the King, quoted -" as containing a seasonable disclosure of the intene " tions of Austria, at a - tirne when they are' declared 4‘ to have been ainbiguoes." . Now a little attention to the Report would have saved our opponent all. this tuor.tifiCation, for he would have found ' that thong') M. ,CIIAMPAGNY thought proper to have this sly hit 'at England, yet he had candidly acknowledged.that i .before bis Ma= jesty's Declaration was published,'BuosnrAtt're was perfealy acquainted with the designs of Austria; nay, he 'enumerates the sources from which tho information was deriveclthe armaments. of Au; stria—the opening of Trieste to the linglish—Au-, strian Ships . sailing Underl3ritish convoy—,-the, Au strian Minister in Spain . leconaing!he Agent 'o'f the . funtaand a discovery . made by BUONAPAIMi that . • Austria had offered to asist .Spain with MO,OOO. men.—From all these circumstances, BilloNApAitTot had much more certain n;ein thilreting ;the lit- r tentions of Austria, than from the passage in the King's Declaration, which i 3 couched in the most': general 'terms. A number of docutrients are added to this Report, in order, we presume, to -support the assertrons contains.. They consist principally of notes from. M. OHANIPAGN/ to M. M.ETTERNICH, the Austrian Anibilitador . at Faris; but the answers of NI ET . TEllNldkiar6 by some accident,' we pp-'surne, omit ted. In a dispatch from Cit ANIVAGNY to Gen. AN. HREo:iliY, the .French Atnhassadi». Vititut, the fertner,givet ,an accept ot . .acurloas L eniiversetioh: tAetween BtroNAPairre and M.. Mi:rraa at the Levee. The fad appearii to be, that 13u0!4ArAttill attacked M. METTERNICH . 061 as he attacked ,L o rd, WHITWORTH ) and we may"presunie with - much the sitne violence, for, M. CIIAMPAGNY himself con= fosses flint hii 7111 it npwect ; but then, • he mdds, that..lie only spoke with the animation which such a subject, Was likely to produce. M. METTERNICH, Wi3 are told, was not ',for 111110 ,- 1/lent, placed in a situation of • Emblssment," a ldi f inkl i , Bum hkAtiis' 4CM!) W 36 as! long as On,unti.Wtiy . 's I port, 4 HLI ,scems: to have been . tie' basis 'of it, -and although his Nißjvsty: was sO moved and animated while he wtts`ijelieeritt ,it. Nay, solar was M. METTERNICH 11'0111 feeling, as Lord..WityrwOuin'did under shnilar circumstances, that he aaually,told (..;ItAutedlGNY afterward;, that jte felicitated hials4upors being employed lt Court where he could , enjoy such defedable dialogues With the Sovereign'! We have not' thought it ne, cessary to lay these doeumenti before our Readers, at they areinseneral very uninteresting. The manner in which the CEIANCELLOR ,of the ExthiP.nuEtt, last might, in the House of Commons, received the Motion of Mr. MARTIN; on the Third Report of the' finance committee, uppn the,sobjeet 'of public offices, must afford the highest sitisfaelion to every rational friend to the-Constitution of this Country. The' CitAbrcet.t.ott of the` Ex(..l/E4tiER expressed his approbation of the Alotion, and pro to do every thing in his power, under proper modifications, to fin ward the objet of ir. The Bill which he has 11 . 10nWii introduced to KeKent traffick ing in places, as well as the tneastu'e immediately on consideration last night, will render Mt e service to the country than nil the violent' fferts .or llinse men wl►o brawl in Taverns, and 4:11 the . world that °ley know not the toe.ming- of a " timperate ite• furni." The present Ministry, we are persuaded, will readily, heartily, and cordially co-operate in any system that can corral abuse without shaking the whale fabric of Government, at which some men aim, and therefore all who really wish to pre serve that happy Constitution, to NV hieh we are in debted for so many blessings, and which keeps this country free and independent amidst so many vassal and prostrate States, should stand firm against the rage and artifice of democratic spirits, who, in the hopeOf.elevating themselves, are anxious to pull down 'whalever wisdom devised, time has matured, and experience haS sanctioned. • Yesterday, his Manny - , Princesses SOPIIIA and AUGUSTA, accompanied by Lady C. WALDUGRAVE, General Furzitov, and c;olonel TA,yLon, took an airing on horseback in . the Great Park, and returned at twelve. Princess: AmE4tA took au airing, in the Great Park. •At One o'elo4 their MAJESTIES, Prin ceses AUGUSTA, SODUIA,-and MARY, accompanied by Lady AlAccLEstriF.Ln i set off - for attlands, .to pay a visit, and dine 'with the Duke and Duchess of Yoitk, at Oatlands. Yesterday afternoon a Cab;net Council was held at Burlington House, at which were present his Grace the Duke of PeIITLAND; the Lord CHANCEL LOR, E 3113 CHATHANXIVERI)OOI., CAMDEN, WEST moELAND, and BATHURST ; Lords MULGRAVI3 and CASTLEREAGH, Air. Secretary. CANNING, and the CHANCELLOR Of-lIIC'EXCHEQUER. Yesterday Lord GANIB . i ( ransgteil business with Lord NltmottAva„ at the, Admiralty. This day his Lordship will leave, town liar Portsmouth, to attend the Court Martial on Adiniral HRVEY, which is expeaed to take place un Thursday. There was no Court of Alderman to-day, but the tord,.Mayor ordered the price of , Bread to be conti nued at is. 2id. the Quartern Loat. Private Letters of the 3d instant, from Holland, state that the carnage in the recent battles in varia was dreadfdl. There is hardly an instance on, record where so much valour was displayed on both sides. " The lois sustained by the French them selves," say the letters,, "might well be inferior to that of the Austrians, since it is known: that they placed the troops belonging to the Confederation of the 'Rhine in. the front of the battle, who thus sus bided. the severest lossi while the French were com paratively hut little exposed to danger." • Lettersof the 12th ult.. from Riga state, that new and very rigorous regulations had boen establi3lied there for enforcing the commercial system which ' the Court of Russia, no less than France,' had, re solved to maintain.. Among other articles, it is de termined that, any ship being seized, having a cargo 'on board proved to come from England, that caigo is to become the property of the informer. BUONAPARTE, ii is said, has carried with him into Germany a very large sum of money, (about 'two trillions sterling, mostly in Napoleons), with Allss. intention of applying it to the purposes of corrupt ioU in the liustrian. Artny: Put experience gives us no Teastni to' donbc the faM, and wo norry to add, that. the same experience furnishes us ...Alt abundant reason to dread the efficacy of such art - . it,luSic.—The'HantiVer.:siiiareßnom s opened. 'last night for the Annual Concert t)t Mr. S.vLotsting, and it was, at an early flour, attended uy an elegant audience, .who completely ,111161 the place. The', chief singers were Mrs. Mi?!.BIANCH 1, Mrs. Asitg, and Sin:,:: r, who all . exerted. selves ably, but p.l ,:aldrly, Mrs. BILLrwo-r - ON . , whose taste and execution equalled arty thing we. ever heard. A• Lady, :tarried HtIGHES'WaS well received in ATTWOOD I S song of Lochinvar, from the poem of , Ilitarmion. • SALOMON performed a'Con , mita , on O w violoncello, in . a very na.astarly style, and with as much spirit and fire as at any period of • his life. INtris 1415iUT diVlayet , l 'great. Skill on t h e ' piana•fOrte. he whole Wass , a, rich treat to the' amateurs.. ' • We understand sortie of Lonjou Performers have made. the folloWing provincial arrangementilor the smuttier i—Mrs. SIODONS visits Liverpool, irtlin• burgh, and Glasgow ; •Kpft3l.2, Mr: J. '4oBN sicisa: and Mr. MuNDtiir, Dublin; Miss DoNam4 and• Mr. Juries, 'of the Covent Garden Company,- Liverpool and Birmingham!, Mr. and . Mrs. H. SID•_ 'EONS, LiVerpool,.on theft way to their own theatre at Bdinburgh; Mr, FAWCETT, Manchester, and a "tour - through the ,North. ' • SPORTING.--Epsoin Races commence onWednes day se'nnight, and thirteen horses will startler the •Dei 7 by Stakes on ithe first day, and fifteen for the Oaks Stakes on the .'second day. Mr. Downis, ,the pedestrian, bus matched him fielf to do thirty miles 43 - three hours and a hall, on Thurday next, for. 100 guineas. „ . • „ Captain B4act..Ay. will Start on the first of June, at Newmarket . , to:do 1000 miles in 1000 hours, tt • one mile an hour. The hetting is even on this event, and the Captain backs himself to win. COURT MAwrist.... , -Yesterday the proceedings at the C`d'oart Martial Jteld .i. at Chelsea, on Captain E. C.)CHRANE (brother to Lard.C.) were continued, 'and the evidence for the Progeention,having closed, .the Board adjourned to .Vtilay nekt, when Capt.. C.' Krill. on his defence. • Yesterday . illf, Case io . 'whielt Mr. COLMAN and the Proprietors of the Haymarket Theatre are con certied; was mentioned to the I.OR-D, CHANCELLOR, anti it appears Opt the parties . have agreed in the choice of .arbitrators. The man;:who `was eiamincd, as having been, cOncerned in; the inprder of tileut. Johnson, has been discharged. .He was-acquitted of highwayrob bery at thelast Old Bailey Ses*ions. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has removed the several' Ma6Mrates from the Commis!don of the PLNict: for the ex?titify Of Weiford, who were india= ect speaators cei the la:e unfortunaie dual between Mr. ALcoct , and Mr. COLCOUGIT. A Nei' was to have. taken place ) nterday morn;n4 . on thy' Ktrnet Itirad o between Mr.' BROtittAVS. or :and:l‘lr. GOLDBURN, of Piccadilly ,• their )ittentions trarmiiireil, they were at . au carly hoar tillif!n into custody. • • To 0.,: PROPItiETORS of EAST INDIA STOCK. foto GittiTLEMEN, THE Diy. of Election being axed for Wednesday the Toth instant; permit me to request the honour of your early At re ndanc e in my Support. The flittering reception 1 have met with on my Canvass encour.,gts me to i.Al.llge tin.- must sanguine hopes of sile. - ess. tit should not he my -bower to pay.my person..l re 4iiive.is to every Proprietor, I trust it will be attributed to the ilia,..curaey of thell..os, and the short interval of time since the vacancy in the Diredion was declared. I have the honour to . be, Ladies and Gentlemen. YourobligedAnd faithful humble Servant, - • " JAMES-DNNIELL. Billiterrittare, May 6, 1809. N . , B. Mr. Daniell's Committee meets daily at the King's Ilcad Tavern, in the Poultry, from EICYCI) till Four o'Cluck. 'This Day was published, Neatly printed in Quarto, by Harding and Wright, price las. boards, A LESTINE, a Poem, recited in the Theatre,' 4 . )xford, 0303. TO which is added, the Passage of the Red. Sea. A Eragnient. By i(LCINALD HERE:R.. I Printed fin . Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternos ter-low ; and (ohrt ttachard, Piccadilly. ►f - 0:11,in may be bad, by the same Author, Europe, Lines on the itrsent . War,' Flee 25. MAILS. &It'u v o---t Waterrord. Dur.--1 Lisbon, t Mau, 2 Got tetiburgh, i Wah;rtont: S, PRICE OF STOCKS Titus DAY AT TWILVL O'CLOCK. COUSCA3 T E S UN. 101.11P1 QUIII ItICSILIL ►ALIUM, AUPLAT NAVAL NEW PORTSSIO U Tx, MAY B.—Arrived the &rah, AR X' STRONG, and Frederick, TAYLOR, fro n Sunderland ; Maria, —, Friendship,W ARE, Speedy, ALDRIDG 9, and Unity, MONDAY, for London ; also his Majesty's ship Linneit from a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ship Hardy, with a convoy, for Cork; and his Majesty's ship Alert, with a convoy, and Harmony, PAY NR, for Newfoundland ; also his Majesty's ship Defender on a cr:nize, YAUMOUTU, MAY B.—Arrived the Acute, from a cruize; the C T orgon from the ,More; and the 'Marto, with convoy for Gottenburgb ; and remain in the Roads with the Roebuck, Onyx, Calypso, Redlreast, gun-brigs A and Cheerful cutter. Dorn:, MAir B.—The Fair Anierican, of Nd.‘q York, Capt. Ilnucit, from Dunkirk, is just arrheki in the Roads, and confirMs the account of the defeat of the Austriabs. FaLmoUTU, MAY 6.—Sailed the Princess packet, Capt. PococK, for Malta ; and Iralsinghat packet, ilottarrs, for Lisbon. Mr. Lieu the American Messenger is arrived here, and will sail in the Pacific early to.inorrow. fur New-I ork. DEAL, MAY 8 .—Sailed his Majesty's ship Caraine, to the Northward; Ethelred, Doum:,!ii, .{ and the Ltpitanict, —, for the }Brazils. SIIEERNI .; MAY .--Arriv(td the Centiuel Goo brig, Lieut. KING, ROYAL ACADEMY:. No. 104. The Distressed.Family.--H. THOM3ANi R.A. - The report which we gave of this pi6ture, while . it was in a state of progression, is fully justified in. the mature excellence 'which charatlerizes its com pletion. The work is one of the chief ontainerns of the Exhibition. The story is well told. T" figures are grouped with great jadgmcnt and effeol. Perhaps it may be thought that there 'is an air Of gentility about the unfortunate family unsuitable to the chara6ter of public mendicants, but they are however to be supposed to have fallen from a heater condition, and may naturally . be, conceived to re tain - some traces of their more prosperous days. There is something venerably impressive in th e " old man, and 'the' daughter is simple and in" teresting. The liberal Critic will be ,satisfied with this expression, without requiring a vulgar precisiOri• There is something very affecting in seeing the dor treating in a liostile manner those to whom ha 14 formerly belonged,,but whom he no longer remeal" tiers.' The colouring is rich and harmonious. No. sj.}. Portrait of Sir losoph *L Dellcs tint. K.O. —T. A. We have seldom witnessed a inure rapid improve ment than this piece exhibits in the powers of this' Artist. The present work will hold a respedahle rank with this best pmdudions of .the kind , which modern art has produced. Sir JOSEPH is here represented in the character of President of the Royal SoCiety; a charader which, notwithstand-. • log the ribaldry thst has heretofore assailed him, he has discharged with zeal, judgment, and liberality. The ornamental appendages appropriate to the Sittla' tion are well disposed and admirably, painted. The general tone of colouring is chaste without being cold, and the Whole presents an exad and dignified portrait. No. 529. The kerit-04.—b. Wrr.xirr.• The merit of this picture is far beyond any poll ° which we can bestow . thi it, and for truth, vartety•• spirit, and discrimination of character, n o thing 'has been seen equal to it since the days of }36-'' GARTH. It is in vain to attempt a description et the various excellencies of this admirable picture, and • • , we must refer the Reader to the work itself, just ob' serving, that it is impossible for the.speataior to be, ; mistaken in the views and occupations of the scrotal. • characters that are introduced. Amidst, the varielf of these charaiers the Artist has been, particularly successful in representing 'one of the o ld tenants , puzzled by his own calculations, - .Truth, vividness, • skilful management of light, and shadow, and gr eat mechanical dexterity, appear throughout this esqn i site composition. No. 78. Portrait of Dowager Lady Deaurnont.—tV. 01,?"' This is unquestionably% the Vary best work Pot ,; ever came from the pencil of the artist., It is w and splendid. Truth of principle, richne,s auki liarmon.r. and a - nobleness of conception, are the charatieristics of this masterly work. management of the light is „excellent, and •1 11 !:' dog introduCed under the chair, - contributes td distribntion of the light with the happieit effea,•!' The figure is venerable, dignified, and appropriate theperiod.of life, and manifesting a pleasing ilo u impressive composUre. The view from thq WindoW , including the Church, is a delicious morceau ! province of landscape. Such a pit-ture is aloud suf. ficient to establish the reputation elan Artist. Na. 77. Henry and'Emma.—S,•Wooproßat, R.A. The Artist here ventured- Upon an arduous task , but he has . been very successful, The clatraa. i L i ' s; are taken from Pigott's beautiful poen), iwr Nut-brown Maid. It - has._ been - the aim of ili Artist to represent the lovers - in retlealed light =ss thcy are necessarily supposed to be in a retired sittm .1 tion, for fearof discovery. This aim he has accoull pushed, without impairing the clearness of his colovt . ing, and the catches of natural light on the face dal( ) . • heroine, are admirably blended with the rest a 1 11* features which appear in Shade. Vie genel'al :sir • ,of the pi6ture is correspondent with the time wile° the event is supposed to happen, and. theltrtist, w 4 may presume to say,:has full en tered into the (-:°".; ception of the Poet, with - respett to the " forinft '1) pressure" - of the charatiers. The. whole iq a elegant, and classical work. . •